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    constant readers ) that you should assert €€ the power of the Head of the Church to be strangely overrated by the Layman . " I can only attribute such an assertion to your attention not toeing sufficiently attracted to a

    deeper investigation of the subject : or it may be the carelessness or ( if you prefer it ) the " eagerness" which has betrayed me into committing two palpable , though comparatively insignificant blunders , may have disposed you to conclude I was equally inaccurate

    in discussing weightier matters . Every assertion relating to the King ' s supremacy contained in the pamphlet in question , you may find fully substantiated in Burnet and Tindal ; by a reference to whom , as well as to

    Fuller ' s Church History , but more especially to the different ecclesiastical powers exercised by Elizabeth , Charles I . and Anne , the ** mistakes" in your Review may be attributed to the right person , and not " disserve" the cause of Truth . I am sure your candour will not refuse the above an early place in your valuable Repository . THE LAYMAN .

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    GLEANINGS * > OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .

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    No . CCCLXXX . Modern compared with ancient Greeks . " What I say , " continued my master , " is perfectly true . The complexion of the modern Greek may receive a different cast from different

    surrounding objects : the core still is the same as in the days of Pericles . Credulity , versatility , and thirst of distinctions from the earliest periods formed , still form , and ever will

    continue to form , the basis of the Greek character ; and the dissimilarity in the external appearance of the nation arises , not from any radical change in its temper and disposition , but only from the incidental variation in the means through which the same pro-

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    pensities are to be gratified . The ancient Greeks worshiped a hundre d gods ; the modern Greeks have faith in relics and miracles , in amulets and divinations . The ancient Greeks brough t rich offerings and gifts to the shrines of their deities for the purpose of

    obtaining success in war and pre-eminence in peace ; the modern Greeks hang up dirty rags round the sanctuary of their saints to shake off an ague or to propitiate a mistress . The former were staunch patriots at home , and subtle courtiers in Persia ; the latter

    defy the Turks in Mayno , and fawn upon them at the Fanar . Besides , was not every commonwealth of ancient Greece as much a prey to cabals and factions as every communit y of modern Greece ? Does not every modern Greek preserve the same

    desire for supremacy , the same readiness to undermine by every means ,, fair or foul , his competitors , which was displayed b y his ancestors ? Do not the Turks of the present day resemble the Romans of past ages in their respect for the ingenuity , and , at the same

    time , in their contempt for the character of their Greek subjects ? And does the Greek of the Fanar shew the least inferiority to the Greek of the Piraeus in quickness of perception , in fluency of tongue , and in fondness for quibbles , for disputations and for

    sophistry ?—Believe me , the very difference between the Greeks of time past and of the present day , arises only from their thorough resemblance , from that equal pliability of temper and of

    faculties in both , which has ever made them receive with equal readiness the impression of every mould , and the impulse of every agent . When patriotism , public spirit and pre-eminence in arts , science , literature and warfare

    were the road to distinction , the Greeks were the first of patriots , of heroes , of painters , of poets and of philosophers . Now that craft and subtlety , adulation and intrigue , are the only paths to greatness , these same Greeks arewhat you see them . " ANASTAJSIUS .

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    410 Gleaning's .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/30/